A road trip to Oak Park, just out of Chicago, is roughly fifteen or so hours from out here in coastal North Carolina where we live, if you happen to be looking at a map. We’re not gluttons for punishment. It’s just, when you weigh the options, meh, might as well drive. As one of my dearest friends who lives in Chicago texted when we … Continue reading Travelogue: Oak Park Is Frank Lloyd *Right*
Cross the Mason-Dixon line driving north through Virginia (and a small, weirdo finger of West Virginia) and you enter Pennsylvania’s topographically interesting southern reaches, with the Appalachians all around, and the northernmost outpost of Krispy Kreme Donuts in Scranton, home of the fictitious and also delicious Dunder Mifflin. It is what we did Monday afternoon, arriving at Fallen Tree Farm near Carlisle well before nightfall … Continue reading Travelogue: We Three Land in Carlisle
There are stretches of busy highway here and elsewhere in coastal North Carolina where dwellings long abandoned stand in various states of ruin; some are so far gone an observer must look closely to find any evidence at all of the built structure nature seems intent to reclaim. Nor is it unusual for glossy new shopping centers or prosperous neighborhoods to pop up on either … Continue reading Reflection: Forgotten Dwellings, Untold Stories
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